Abandoned Lover [Future]

Joshua felt like he was going crazy.

After returning from visiting Eugene in the hospital last night, he went to bed early, determined to end the pattern of being late and leaving early in recent days.However, in the early hours of the morning, he was awakened by notifications from both the hospital and the police. As Eugene's emergency contact, he was informed that someone had broken into Eugene's ward and attempted to assassinate him.

What is this all about?

He rushed back to the hospital anxiously, only to find that Eugene's original ward had been sealed off.The notice said that Eugene was fine, but looking at the blood on the ground, Joshua only felt his head go blank.

Did Eugene fight with someone again?How is his injury?

Fortunately, someone informed him of Eugene's current location in time, and when Joshua saw Eugene, he was still deeply asleep.In the pure white intensive care unit, nurses and nursing robots took off Eugene's blood-stained hospital gown, and pushed him into a monitor with a transparent shield.As the monitor was turned upside down, the radiography of the organs and bones, as well as lines of numbers showing physical signs were displayed on the screen, indicating that Eugene was safe and sound.

Joshua let out a long breath, but Eugene looked unnaturally sleepy.After asking the doctor around him, the other side said with some embarrassment: "He seems to have been given a strong sedative, but please rest assured, we haven't found any damage caused by the drug yet..."

It sounded like a reference to Eugene being drugged.Joshua's heart sank, he took out the terminal, and prepared to find out what happened through his acquaintances in the police.

There are already a lot of police stationed at the hospital. If Eugene is safe for the time being, Joshua hopes to help the police catch the instigator of the assassination as soon as possible.He subconsciously glanced at Eugene's direction again, planning to go to the Public Security Bureau of the White Tower.

He just glanced at it casually, but happened to meet the moment when the man was lifted off the monitoring device.When Eugene's body was turned, Joshua saw the pierced wound on the left lower back of the opponent, and the piece of skin where the wound was entangled.

There is a prominent, bright red circular imprint there.

Ordinary people in the green star would not know the meaning of the brand, but Joshua, who was the personal guard of the female general, was able to access extremely complicated information.

If he remembers correctly, the mark on the back of Eugene's waist is the slave brand under the interstellar pirate Gogo ship.

... However, the pirates did not have systematic physical labor, and most of the people who were branded as slaves were prostitutes on the ship.

The Chief Sheriff of the White Tower District has already appeared in the projection of Joshua's terminal, and the other party is now greeting Joshua, trying to call his attention.Joshua responded blankly, his mind becoming a mess.

When he met Eugene, he was only 19 years old.Because Eugene seldom mentioned his parentage, Joshua only knew that Eugene was Mrs. Arning's illegitimate son, but he subconsciously believed that he was probably hidden in the dark and grew up smoothly.

Mrs. Arning was originally from a noble family, and this brand should not have appeared on Eugene at all.

Joshua was in a daze on the way to the Public Security Bureau, and he never thought that the information he would face afterwards would be equally unreasonable.

——"Are you telling me that there are two professional killers who, on the premise of intruding into the hospital's security system, intend to kill Eugene?" Joshua dumbly repeated the conclusion of the Chief Sheriff, "And then When they were about to strike, Xiao stopped them?"

"We are still working hard to restore the case," the chunky Chief Sheriff wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, "but according to the current investigation results, we believe that this is a well-planned murder... the deceased The DNA of the two assassins was compared, and they were ex-convicts with multiple murder charges but successfully exonerated. Judging from the tampered records of the equipment and security systems carried by the two, it seems that they originally wanted to create an accident The illusion of cardiac arrest..."

The poor sheriff himself doesn't know how he suddenly received such a case.The nurse on duty at the time of the crime was taken away, the surveillance alarm and access control system were out of order for twelve minutes, and the assassins were still carrying strong sedatives, automatic intravenous syringes and an air pump-if they succeeded, they would be considered aware It was a homicide, and this is probably a case where it is difficult to find the murderer.

But just when the assassins were about to strike, a series of coincidences occurred—the lovers of the assassination targets happened to come back to fight with them, and the terminals carried by the two assassins exploded at the same time, and then the alarm system of the entire ward was activated. Because the faults are triggered at the same time...

The Chief Sheriff had no idea how to write this file, let alone the second son of the Rothschild family suddenly appeared in front of him, seeking justice for the man who was almost killed.

"We are still investigating the victim's social relationship to understand the murderer's motive..."

Joshua was almost numb from the shock of this series of messages, but now when he heard the word "motivation" mentioned by the other party, he suddenly thought about it, and a young man appeared in his mind.

"I have a guess," Yue Shu said, and called up Benoit Lafayette's information from the terminal: "Can you investigate this person?"

……

White Tower Public Security Bureau, recording room.

The police officer who had just turned from an intern to a full-time employee was scratching his hair in distress.

The originally smooth night duty was broken by an attempted murder case, and he, who had no experience, was called by his superior to question the only witness and the person involved.There was a lot of blood on that person's body, and his behavior and movements seemed to have a strange sense of disjointedness. Looking carefully, there were lattice-like lines in those unfocused eyes.

The object of this hearing is not even human.

The malfunctioning cyborg seems to have lost most of the memory of the murder, except for the part before he was knocked down by the electric shock.And for everything that happened after that, his answers were always only "I don't remember" and "I don't know".

The surveillance video at the time of the incident was unavailable, and the investigation and interrogation was therefore at a bottleneck.Could it be that the next step is to notify the Society of Life to take the person back and pry open his head to check?The police officer felt that the case seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and the anxiety in his heart became stronger.

At the height of his struggles, the Chief Sheriff entered with a man in uniform.After a short conversation, that Mr. Rothschild vouched for the biochemical man and even took him away.

"Is this really okay? Didn't they say that he killed someone on the spot..." Someone raised such a question from the side.

"It should be an accident, right? This kind of biochemical person has a ban. They can't attack humans, and they don't have the right to fight back in self-defense."

"He is a lover model, and he has the setting of guarding his master. It's normal to think about it this way."

Everyone was discussing like this, showing a persuaded expression, only the police officer who had just interrogated was still frowning.

...Although it is a good thing that the trouble is temporarily taken away, but according to the information sent recently, the owner of this biochemical man is clearly someone else.

Incomprehensible.

……

Xiao silently followed behind Joshua, and stepped out of the gate of the Public Security Bureau with a somewhat weird posture.It was the coldest time before dawn, Joshua tightened the collar of his windbreaker, and looked back at the cyborg who was acting stiffly.

"Are you okay?" Joshua had never seen such an "inhuman" Xiao, and now he couldn't help but feel a little worried: "I know someone at the Life Society, maybe he can help you do some inspections and repairs."

The acquaintance here refers to his eldest brother Jonathan.For some unknown reason, his brother has been very interested in Eugene and Xiao since the start of the gladiatorial competition.But because of this, if he asks for help, the other party should not refuse.

"No, thank you." There was still some electronic noise in Xiao's voice, "Okay, can you take me to Eugene's apartment? I think, change a dress and replenish energy."

No matter how you look at Xiao like this, he looks like a malfunction, but Joshua couldn't bear to refuse.

"I'll accompany you back, and then send you to Eugene."

Xiao's eyes widened slightly, but the electronic irises were still dim.

"Thank you for saving my savior." The female general's personal guard said so, and helped the biochemical man open the door of the co-pilot of the land vehicle.

… On the way to Eugene's apartment, Xiao kept silent.This cyborg seemed to be very silent except in front of Eugene.

Joshua noticed that he had been looking out the car window at the huge white tower soaring into the sky.This is the most famous landmark in the "White Tower" area and even the entire Cornova, and it is also the origin of the name of this area.

"Is there something wrong?"

"...What's that place?" Xiao asked.

"No one knows. Among the people I know, only the general has been there. It should be an administrative agency of the government." Joshua replied casually.

Xiao's eyes didn't move, he just looked in that direction quietly.

This wasn't the first time he saw that building, but it was the first time he felt familiar with it.

He could even imagine what he would see from the top of the tower.

Xiao didn't ask much, and slowly looked away.

——Ten minutes later, Joshua stood in the living room of Eugene's house, watching Xiao Yong connect the two silver metal pipes behind him with a somewhat faltering movement.

The room was still dark with only one light on.The moment the electric current poured into Xiao's body, Joshua opened his eyes wide open, and countless extremely small golden and cyan electric sparks flashed from under Xiao's skin, like tiny fireworks, which exploded in the instant. The texture on it is almost transparent.It seems that there is a specific electric current surging back and forth in this mechanical body, repairing those incomplete and damaged parts.

Xiao's eyes had never been closed, so Joshua watched with his own eyes the lattices lit up one by one in those dim irises.At the end, the black pupils shrank suddenly, and those eyes returned to the same appearance as human beings.

The running electric sparks continued, and the cyborg calmly raised his hand and turned his wrist.The stiff movements gradually disappeared, becoming smooth and soft.

Looking at Xiao who was glowing with golden light all around him, Joshua opened his mouth slightly in surprise.

——What exactly is Xiao?